South African National Parks CEO David Mabunda has hand delivered affidavits to <em>M&G</em> denying preferential tender procedure.
Three veterinarians appeared in court realting to a potent drug, known as M99, which has been used by poachers to knock out rhinos.
Park management body has refuted allegations of irregularities and maladministration amid a rise in poaching activity.
A day after SanParks reported 52 rhinos have been killed this year in South Africa, police say they have arrested five suspected rhino poachers.
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/ 14 February 2012
Sanparks has revealed that 52 rhinos have been poached in South Africa so far this year — mostly in Limpopo and Kruger National Park.
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/ 10 February 2012
Wildlife agencies clamping down on multimillion rand animal and by-product black market.
The Kruger Park has had to evacuate some of its guests after turbulent storms caused massive flooding in nearby Mozambique, leaving hundreds homeless.
Two suspected poachers have been shot and killed in the Kruger Park during an anti-poaching operation after the discovery of eight dehorned rhinos.
Eight dehorned rhino carcasses have been discovered in the Kruger National Park during routine patrols in the Pretoriuskop and Sabie areas.
A bid to have Venda’s Lake Fundudzi declared a heritage site has been met by suspicion by locals who want to shield the mystical site from outsiders.
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/ 1 November 2011
The tusk of one of the Kruger National Park’s oldest elephants, Duke, who died last month, seems set to break environmental records.
Government has endorsed the construction of the first international class hotel in the Kruger National Park.
It is a pity that the response from the chief executive of SANParks to an unbecomingly racist letter in the local press led to the Kruger row.
A heated race row has erupted over plans to develop two hotels in the Kruger National Park aimed at attracting "black diamonds" to the reserve.
Three suspected rhino poachers have been shot dead in the Kruger National Park, SANDF said on Thursday.
Soaring demand means syndicates are stockpiling rhino horn against future scarcity, writes <b>Fiona Macleod</b>.
The chairperson of the South African National Parks board, has been caught up in the row over plans for luxury hotels in the Kruger National Park.
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/ 23 November 2010
A suspected poacher was shot and killed by rangers in the Kruger National Park, SA National Parks said on Monday.
South African National Parks announced on Thursday that it had opened its war chest to fight poachers in the Kruger Park.
Conservation officials believe the arrests have broken the back of illegal rhino poaching in South Africa.
A Pretoria couple drove 170km from the Kruger National Park with a Mozambique spitting cobra in their car, according to a media report on Wednesday.
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/ 19 February 2009
Organisers of the 2010 World Cup are tapping resources in the tourist magnet of the Kruger National Park.
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/ 8 February 2009
Communities head for court after government decision to offer alternative land to settle Kruger National Park claims.
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/ 23 January 2009
Kruger National Park rivers have tested positive for cholera, an official said on Friday.
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/ 21 January 2009
When three rotting crocodile carcasses were spotted in a remote corner of the Kruger National Park, alarm bells started ringing for scientists.
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/ 10 October 2008
A Kruger National Park ranger was attacked and mauled by a lion on Friday, the park said.
All rhinoceros horns in South Africa are to be microchipped in an attempt to curb the ”dramatic” increase in the illegal trade of rhino horns.
A 2,5 degrees Celsius rise in the average world temperature above 1990 levels could have a shattering effect on the Kruger National Park.
The cause behind a recent spate of crocodile deaths at Olifants Gorge in the Kruger National Park is still unknown, the government said on Wednesday.
Mining has been blamed for the death of more than 50 crocodiles along the Olifants River in Kruger National Park in the past month.
Ecologists at the Kruger National Park are puzzled over the recent spate of crocodile deaths, the park’s management said on Wednesday.
Limpopo’s environmental affairs and tourism department has given the go-ahead for rangers to kill lions that have escaped from the Kruger National Park, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Wednesday. Five more cattle were killed by lions at Gawula village outside Giyani on Wednesday.